I don’t think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.
I think it’s crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn’t. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
I’m not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don’t like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
I don’t have a favourite book, I have hundreds.
A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.
In retrospect Hank I don’t know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there’s many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I’ve been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
Books don’t change people; paragraphs do. Sometimes even sentences.
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
Drink deeply from good books.
Sit in a room and read – and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!
I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.